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Flick, Flick. Ferry Porsche doggedly refuses to tie himself more closely to Volkswagen, just as doggedly refuses to go after the mass market. Porsche owners are such as Elke Sommer, Herbert von Karajan, Prince Rainier, Ingemar Johansson, Juan Carlos of Spain and Krupp Heir Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Like Porsche owners everywhere, they flick their headlights in salute as they pass on the highway, even at 100 m.p.h. U.S. highways now boast 29,000 Porsches, and half of Porsche's production is sold in the U.S.; demand is so strong that U.S. buyers must now wait...
...McDivitt and Ed White, President Johnson had suddenly ordered the space twins to fly to the Paris Air Show-and sent Hubert along with them. When De Gaulle, out touring the French countryside, got the word, he invited Humphrey to drop by. The meeting, with U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and an interpreter present, lasted 80 minutes...
...word twice on the same day. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...
...which badly wants De Gaulle to restore to NATO command the troops and ships that he has pulled out of the alliance, plainly hoped that the potent, durable Polaris might prove an alluring offer. After a flying trip to Palm Beach for consultation with Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen returned to Paris to tell De Gaulle in person that there is ample room for negotiation on the U.S. offer. No quick decision seemed likely. As De Gaulle himself said: "These are immensely far-reaching problems. One doesn't give them a single answer. One responds to them every...
...Chip" Bohlen, about to leave for Paris as U.S. ambassador there, supplied a significant clue. Talking to Kennedy, he recalled a Lenin adage that Khrushchev is fond of quoting: If a man sticks out a bayonet and strikes mush, he keeps on pushing. But when he hits cold steel, he pulls back...